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Date:      Sun, 13 Sep 1998 03:00:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?=  =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: conf/7908: wrong perms on objformat after upgrade
Message-ID:  <199809131000.DAA02821@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR conf/7908; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?=  =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: conf/7908: wrong perms on objformat after upgrade
Date: 13 Sep 1998 11:59:21 +0200

 Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
 > > > the permissions on /etc/objformat.  I installed it as root with an
 > > > umask of 077 and the file got the permissions 0600.
 > > Don't Do That, Then. I learned the hard way never to set root's umask
 > > to anything stricter than 022. Unless you always remember to set the
 > > umask right at the right time, anything you install (including, but
 > > not limited to, /etc/objformat) is installed wrong.
 > Nonsense.  Everything installed properly (using install(1)) is installed
 > right.
 
 XFree86 comes to mind.
 
 DES
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 Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no

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